DBS part 5
Yesterday, we turned on it on. Powered it up. Made it so. Got 'er done. I felt nothing. At first. After a minute or so, I felt just a touch looser, as if I had taken a handful of pills and then waited a half hour for them to start to kick in. It was a subtle feeling, and at first I wasn't even sure it was real. But then I moved a little--sat down, stood up, walked around. No doubt about it, I was more relaxed and moving more smoothly. This was after skipping all meds for the day, so while this was one of my better unmedicated days, I was in fairly rough shape. My first thought was that I should not take my scheduled meds as planned. Why? To see how close to "there" the new DBS signals would be able to get me. However, the neurologist thought that would be too many variables changing all at once, so I resumed taking them. Not quite as scheduled, but I took them. The tracking and controlling software seems prett...